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Get a Better Bargain on Amazon

A lot of us look to Amazon for the best deals, but a recent study by The Wall Street Journal found that the site's prices fluctuate frequently -- sometimes as much as nine times in one day. Here's how you can you avoid overpaying for your goods.

First, knowing a product's price history can help you assess whether its cost will go up or down in the near future. Before you get overwhelmed by the task, there are sites that make it easy to follow these numbers.

TheTracktor.com allows you to enter an item's Amazon URL or product description, generating its price history and other helpful info within seconds. If you decide to track the item, you'll receive an email any time the price is lowered.

For those of you who want to track your goods without leaving Amazon, there's The Camelizer, a handy browser extension available for Chrome, Firefox and Safari. It just takes one click to download. To use it, simply go to Amazon and hit the camel icon in your toolbar while you're shopping around.

A small window will appear with the pricing trends and alert options for whatever item you're browsing. There are a lot of great price tracking tools out there, but these are a few of our favorites.

Give them a try, and you might be surprised at how much you can save. Happy shopping!

Amazon Prime is absolutely worth it. I have yet to pay full price (Student account) but once I go full, I'll start sharing my account with family so the cost will be shared. Prime Instant Video and Prime Music are also bonuses, making it well worth it!

I thought maybe "Prime" status could be shared across multiple acounts, but guess that's wrong. I'm not the only one with an account in this household!

I guess it just boils down to how much you use shipping, ultimately. Some stuff like DC animated series can't be found on Netlix (but purchasing episodes is another option) so that's a bit aggravating.

A Prime membership costs $100 a year. You can add on 4 additional friends or family to receive Prime. Have everyone pay $20 a year. There. Prime is a deal. Supposedly if you put items on a wish list, you can see how the price has tracked over time. Also, more than one seller can sell an item. Therefore, price and shipping charges can vary greatly. I do usually check Amazon first, then Wal-Mart and then ebay.

I am a Hot Wheel collector and in all the years I have collected. I just recently bought a few from supposed Amazon Toy Collection Sellers....NEVER WILL AGAIN! PERIOD! Because even the toy collection sellers are too lazy to package the items themselves knowing Amazon will just throw things into an envelope without any care. Any toy collector for stuff like How Wheels, Barbies, etc will tell you once the packages are ruined, bent, or smashed they become almost worthless. Every single car I bought had tears, bent corners, one had the plastic completely smashed. Atleast the Toy Collection Sellers on EBAY know what the hell they are doing. Out of all the pieces I bought in the last 5 years. All were packed in small boxes with the item in protection packs. AMAZON SUCKS!

i have some hot wheels from the 80s if your interested.they have the wheels with the red strip around them.im at williamwstyles@aol.com i have the hot wheels carrying case the round one black with the car slots in them.ok take care if your interested.i dont have any boe and there in decent condition

I bought two small bottles of biotin vitamins at $12.70 and Amazon charged me $5.48 for shipping. The small box fit in my mailbox and I am shocked at how much the shipping cost. They have upped the price on a lot of stuff and I won't be doing to much business with them anymore. I also don't like seeing everything I buy from them when I pull my name up on google and how much I pay for the items and what I say about the items.